[Enclosure—Translation]
The Albanian Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Vrioni) to the
American Minister (Hart)
Tirana, September 8,
1928.
No. 1875/111Mr. Minister: In your Note numbered 203
and dated August 27 last, Your Excellency was pleased to
communicate the text of the treaty for the renunciation of war
as an instrument of national policy, signed on that same day at
Paris, and asking me at the same time whether the Royal
Government would be inclined to adhere to the said pact.
With very earnest thanks to Your Excellency for that important
communication, I have the honor to inform you that the Royal
Government, upon a very profound sympathetic examination of Your
Excellency’s note, as well as of the text of the treaty thereto
annexed, deems it its duty to do homage to the generous thoughts
which inspired the Government of the United States on proposing
the said pact, and to join in the congratulations of that
Government and of the other Powers signatory to the pact on that
grand manifestation of concord and international brotherhood
that is so comformable to the wishes and deep sentiments of the
family of nations.
Albania, in view of its strong and constant attachment for the
ideal of peace will deem herself very happy to join heartily in
this great common undertaking destined to develop among the
peoples the spirit of peace and to bring new obstacles in the
way of war.
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It is, therefore, with a very keen pleasure that I hasten to
declare to Your Excellency that the Royal Government is ready to
give its adhesion to the Multilateral Anti-war Treaty, and is
instructing its Minister in Washington, Mr. Faik Konitza, to
that effect.
I beg [etc.]
